Lessons from Sci-fi regarding AI

I'm deeply concerned about AI and don't use it myself; anyone who has watched the Terminator films is going to be heading for the nearest available bunker.

Sci-fi does explore these ideas, I Robot, the film, not the book - Looks at AI taking over to protect humans from themselves.

Asimov's famous 3 laws of Robotics, unknown to many, had a 4th law - Rule Zero, that robots had to protect humanity as a whole, even before protecting individual humans.

Asimov explored these ideas further with his Multivac stories, in which an alien race contacts humanity to test them. It was the existence of a guiding AI that qualified the human race to enter the galactic community.

It's the role of sci-fi authors to develop these ideas to the extreme to see what the consequences might be, the problem is that the founders of these AI companies are excited by the ideas portrayed in sci-fi, but completely fail to heed the warnings.
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Published on May 17, 2025 06:29
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